Neighborhood income segregation is a widespread phenomenon. We explore its origins by modeling neighborhood selection by native Norwegian households making inter–neighborhood moves, distinguishing influences of shares of three income groups and the discrepancy between the individual household's income and neighborhood median. We conduct a conditional logit analysis employing 2013–2014 population register data from the Oslo, Norway, metropolitan area. We find that status composition (shares of low– and high–income households) and status discrepancy (difference between individual household's and neighborhood median disposable incomes) critically shapes neighborhood selection, though heterogeneously across income groups. All income groups sort into neighborhoods that have more of their own status group in residence. Middle– or high–income households avoid neighborhoods with above–average shares of low–status households and median incomes that are higher than their own. High–income households are more attracted to a place the greater the superiority of their incomes compared to the neighborhood median. Our findings suggest that although the drivers of residential income segregation are powerful, public policies aimed at neighborhood diversification have potential efficacy nevertheless.

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地位厌恶、吸引力和差异作为邻里选择的驱动因素

邻里收入隔离是一种普遍现象。我们通过模拟挪威本土家庭进行邻里间迁移的邻里选择来探索其起源，区分三个收入组的份额的影响以及单个家庭的收入与邻里中位数之间的差异。我们使用来自挪威奥斯陆大都市区的 2013-2014 年人口登记数据进行条件 logit 分析。我们发现，地位构成（低收入和高收入家庭的份额）和地位差异（个人家庭和邻里可支配收入中位数之间的差异）对邻里选择产生了关键影响，尽管在不同收入群体之间存在异质性。所有收入群体都归类为居住在他们自己的身份群体中的社区。中等收入或高收入家庭会避开低收入家庭比例高于平均水平且收入中位数高于他们自己的社区。与社区中位数相比，高收入家庭的收入优势越大，他们就越容易被一个地方所吸引。我们的研究结果表明，尽管居民收入隔离的驱动因素是强大的，但旨在实现社区多元化的公共政策仍然具有潜在的功效。